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As Foreign Secretary Canning had objected to the King interfering in decision making, George IV never really trusted him. The feeling was mutual. However in 1827, tied by the complications of cross party loyalties, George IV felt no option but to ask Canning to be Prime Minister. Within a few month Canning was dead.

Lord Liverpool

ROBERT JENKINSON, LORD LIVERPOOL (1770-1828)

• Second Baron Hawkesbury, Second Earl of Liverpool
• Tory MP and Prime Minister 1812-1827
• Went to the Lords in 1803
• Became Second Earl of Liverpool in 1808
• Foreign Secretary 1801-1802 responsible for the Treaty of Amiens in 1802
• Home Secretary 1804-1806 and 1807-1809
• Secretary for War and the Colonies 1809-1812
• Became Prime Minister in 1812 and remained so for almost 15 years
• His policies were often judged reactionary and his legacy was to bring together the old and radical Tories
• Resigned in 1827 after a stroke

The bodies of those sentenced to death in the Port of London were hung on gibets for all to see. This habit William Sykes wrote to Robert Peel "excites feelings of disgust in the breasts of numerous voyagers to Ramsgate, Margate, France, the Netherlands, et cetera, et cetera."

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM CANNING TO HIS WIFE

Twenty eight of January, eighteen hundred and twenty five

I shall talk to Lievan and Esterhazy when I next see them, in a manner that will check their meddling in the future. I thold Cabinet that I knew the whole of this tracasserie to be the work of foreign interference, of which (as Liverpool would vouch) I had warned him six weeks ago that it was concocted in Vienna and that the object was to force the King to change his policy by changing part of the Government.

Will the Duke of Wellington tell all that has passed to Madame Lievan tonight? If this sort of work goes on I shall be obliged to remind His Majesty that constitutionally he has no right to see Foreign Ministers at all except in my presence, and that his father never thought of such co-joberations. I really hope that we shall all go on the better for this last attempt, and that the ultras among us will now see that they have nothing for it but to submit ....

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1803	The Napoleonic Wars begin
1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin
1793	Britain enters the Wars
1801	Pitt the Younger resigns
1802	Napoleonic Wars begin
1805	Nelson is victorious but dies at Trafalgar
1810	George III becomes insane
1815	Battle of Waterloo end Napoleonic Wars
1820	George III dies George IV becomes king
1821	George IV excludes Queen Caroline from the coronation
1822	Castlereagh commits suicide
1823	O'Connell forms the Catholic Association
1828	Wellington becomes Prime Minister
1829	Metropolitan Police is formed
1830	George IV dies William IV becomes king